Bill Gates? I don’t think he is really involved much with Microsoft anymore. He stepped down from the board of directors in 2020.

You could set your browser to clear all cookies when you close it. That does mean you have to keep logging into sites every time you open the browser again, but with a password manager that’s not really a problem.

I don’t think they make money. It’s an open source project where people donate their time as far as I know.

EDIT: I forgot to mention you can donate to the project. Something has to pay for web hosting, I guess.

I built a new PC two months ago and it’s the first time I didn’t get Office. Libre Office has everything I need and it’s free.

You can turn that off in Group Policy if you have the Pro version of Windows.

I can understand this. This is a server hosted by an individual who doesn’t want the potential legal headaches that may arise. Everyone is free to make another account on another instance, or create their own instance.

You can always host your own instance. Then you can choose what is blocked and what isn’t.

Pog

Yeah, I built my new PC around 2 months ago. Maybe they are cheaper elsewhere but here in Australia they are very expensive. :(

256TB? That’s huge! How about an affordable 8TB SSD though? I ended up going with a HDD as a secondary drive because it was like a quarter of the price of high capacity SSDs.

And so it begins

I can spend 17 minutes driving to work, or 1.5 hours catching buses. Easy choice for me.

30 new ships in a year? I doubt it. I mean, they can’t even afford to keep one aircraft carrier running.

Also, who eats their pizza with a salad?

Named himself “President of the National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland” according to another article.

Those are the first two apps I tried. I just recently downloaded Connect and it has been ok so far. I haven’t been using it for very long, though.

As in the feed of communities you are subscribed to? I just tried in Connect and it works for me.

What model mobo did you use?

He mostly seemed to have it in for Brian Gutekunst.

I’ll have to disagree there. When you Favourite a post, the person that posted it gets a notification about the fact, while if you Bookmark something no notification is sent. In effect you are telling the person that you “Liked” their post.

Also, looking at the Explore section of Mastodon the following message is shown at the top of the feed:

These are posts from across the social web that are gaining traction today. Newer posts with more boosts and favorites are ranked higher.

So those Favourites are used by the algorithm to rank posts. Bookmarks are totally private and only used to save posts for your own use.